FX animation briefly pauses 2.5s after startup

When ESP32 and WLED powers up and connects to wifi any animation briefly pauses then resumes. If I turn Wifi and access point off, the time its paused gets much much better but it still does it. (600 ms vs 100ms guess)

Is their any way to eliminate this pause completely? Any idea what the code is doing besides trying to connect to wifi at this time?

What version of WLED are you running?
Do you have HomeAssistenat or any other devices trying to talk to WLED?

I’ve noticed it on 13.0, 13.3 and 14.
I am not trying to sync WLED or communicate with it besides WiFi.

My settings/sync page does have

Enable instance list:
Make this instance discoverable:
Receive UDP realtime:

all checked, should I uncheck these?

Certainly shouldn’t hurt to uncheck those pieces.

I unchecked those and tested, still has the same minor pause.